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From: "Joan Fisher" <>
Subject: [IGW] Bandon-bridge, Cork and the poet Edmund Spenser?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 15:41:40 -0700

Hello,
I'm researching the Puritan roots of my TAPE and GOSNELL ancestors in the town of Bandon or Bandon-bridge in County Cork. I'm working from The History of Bandon by Bennett, written in the mid 1860s. I'm confused by a reference he uses and am not sure if he's attributing it to Edmund Spenser (whose daughter Catherine lived in the neighbourhood in the 1640s) or whether he thinks it's so well known that anyone would know the author. The couplet is "a Turk, a Jew, or an Atheist, may live in this town, but no Papist." Anyone know who wrote that and what it was part of?
What about Spenser's line, "The pleasant Bandon, crowned with many a wood". Anyone know which poem that is from? Is there more about Bandon in the poem?
Thanks,
Joan Fisher

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